PUT THIS MONEY TO WORK, Dr. Samuel Lee
JESUS WEEPS OVER JERUSALEM
Passage: Luke 19:41~48  
Key verse: 41
41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it(A) 42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.(B) 44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls.(C) They will not leave one stone on another,(D) because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming(E) to you.”
Jesus at the Temple(F)
45 When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. 46 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be a house of prayer’[a];(G) but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’[b]”(H)
47 Every day he was teaching at the temple.(I) But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.(J) 48 Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.
Footnotes
- Luke 19:46 Isaiah 56:7
- Luke 19:46 Jer. 7:11
Cross references
- Luke 19:41 : Isa 22:4; Lk 13:34, 35
- Luke 19:43 : Isa 29:3; Jer 6:6; Eze 4:2; 26:8; Lk 21:20
- Luke 19:44 : Ps 137:9
- Luke 19:44 : Lk 21:6
- Luke 19:44 : 1Pe 2:12
- Luke 19:45 : 19:45, 46pp — Mt 21:12-16; Mk 11:15-18; Jn 2:13-16
- Luke 19:46 : Isa 56:7
- Luke 19:46 : Jer 7:11
- Luke 19:47 : S Mt 26:55
- Luke 19:47 : S Mt 12:14; Mk 11:18
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1. Recognize God's coming (41-44)
Jesus entered Jerusalem amid shouts of praise, but tears were in his eyes. He was not weeping for himself, but for the people who did not know that God was visiting them. If they had welcomed him, he would have given them real peace. But they rejected him. Those who reject God's love will taste his wrath.
2. A house of prayer (45-48)
Jesus did not go to the palace; he went to the temple. He came to bring spiritual revolution. He brought prayer and Bible teaching and true worship back to the temple. But the religious leaders looked at him with political eyes and saw in him a threat to their leadership. They did not repent; instead, they sought to kill him. But the thirsty people hung on his words.
Prayer: Lord, make my heart a place where you are always welcome. Give me a repentant heart and eyes to recognize the time of your coming to me.
One Word: Jesus weeps for the lost